-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 April 2003 18:03, Penn Gwynne wrote: > I am fairly (re)new to Debian. I had Potato in its early days, but played > with Gentoo then Redhat 8 to get a feel for other distros. > > Ultimately I reinstalled Debian a couple of weeks ago from the 3.0r1 CDs > and of course got KDE 2.2. I want to use KDE specifically, but KMail from > KDE 2.2 would not work with my ISP which requires a password for SMTP.
Guys, you probably don't know it but there's even more :-) deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/debian/kde woody main http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/debian/kde/README Try that one instead. That's where I'll put updates on compared to the debs on the ftp servers. Ralf > > After scanning a couple of threads in debian-user I got brave and went to > www.kde.org where I added "deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian > stable main" to my sources.list. Took me a bit to figure out how to > actually get KDE 3.1.1. (Didn't realize it was "apt-get install kdm" and > not "apt-get upgrade".) So now I have KDE 3.1.1 and love it and this mail > is being typed by KMail. > > I see problems though. I tried to install koffice and get errors. Here is > an extract of the terminal spew. > > koffice: Depends: koffice-libs but it is not going to be installed > Depends: kchart but it is not going to be installed > > Later I tried to install xmmsarts and got the same sort of thing: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > xmmsarts: Depends: libarts-alsa (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not going to be > installed or libarts (>= 4:2.2.2-1) > > I assume all of this is because my system is now in sort of a "split" mode; > stock Woody except for KDE. > > Any advice on how to resolve this? Do I need to upgrade to Sarge or (ugh) > Sid? Or is it primarily my newness to apt-get and how to force an install > of a particular version of a package. > > Thanks, > /Pen - -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+j1J/u0nKi+w1Ky8RArAuAJ9jZCE8UplcLMP/sU19xzqwC7GFhQCgprFL ER2ujx6fOQzpk18JDdMBMpM= =7AHO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
